Kong Gateway Enterprise vs Oracle API Platform Cloud Service comparison

Kong and Oracle are both solutions in the API Management category. Kong is ranked #4 with an average rating of 7.9, while Oracle is ranked #19 with an average rating of 9.0. Kong holds a 6.8% mindshare in APIM, compared to Oracle’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Kong users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Oracle API Platform Cloud Service and Kong Gateway Enterprise are competing in the API management landscape. Kong Gateway Enterprise often seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced features, extensive plugin architecture, and scalability.

Features: Oracle API Platform Cloud Service offers robust monitoring, API design, and policy enforcement capabilities, integrating seamlessly into Oracle’s ecosystem while supporting hybrid deployments. Kong Gateway Enterprise is notable for its extensive plugin architecture, enabling high scalability and flexibility, tailored for modern microservices architectures.

Room for Improvement: Oracle API Platform Cloud Service could enhance its heavy architecture to compete effectively with other vendors and improve its policy package. Additionally, Oracle could work on refining its user interface for even more intuitive use. Kong Gateway Enterprise might improve by providing easier integration with existing systems and reducing the complexity involved in customization. Enhancing the initial setup process could also broaden its appeal to new users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle API Platform Cloud Service integrates smoothly within existing Oracle environments, assisted by guided setups and comprehensive support resources. While Kong Gateway Enterprise requires a steeper learning curve, its excellent documentation and active community support facilitate independent deployment, and its strong community engagement resolves issues quickly.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle API Platform Cloud Service offers competitive pricing with lower upfront costs, providing strong ROI especially for Oracle-heavy infrastructures. Kong Gateway Enterprise, though associated with higher initial costs, delivers substantial long-term returns through enhanced productivity and system efficiency, attributed to its scalability and comprehensive feature set.

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Kong Gateway Enterprise vs. Oracle API Platform Cloud Service

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Kong Gateway Enterprise

Ranking in API Management

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle API Platform Cloud S...

Ranking in API Management

19th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the API Management category, the mindshare of Kong Gateway Enterprise is 6.8%, up from 6.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle API Platform Cloud Service is 0.7%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

API Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Kong Gateway Enterprise	6.8%
Oracle API Platform Cloud Service	0.7%
Other	92.5%

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ASHOK YADAV

Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Offers OIDC, Rate Limiting, Lambda functions but lacks software upgrades

Upgrading Kong Gateway Enterprise should be more sophisticated and innovative. The main issue is with the update process. Our DevOps and admin teams need to update multiple files, which is cumbersome. For instance, in cases where Palantir countries are involved, they have to update many files, which is not ideal. However, for other tasks like configuring the message routing and services and handling all the configurations, the process is acceptable. The software version upgrade process should be improved. Additionally, the DevOps portal should be integrated more natively. There are a few other areas for improvement, such as implementing automatic load balancing. The status of the office team, whether it is up or down, should be checked at the API gateway level to facilitate load balancing.

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Mahaboob Pasha

Solutions Architect at Truglobal

Secure and simplify API management with effective deployment options

In our organization, we use Oracle API Platform Cloud Service primarily to host and manage our middleware APIs. Our middleware APIs are registered on this platform and exposed to a fixed domain, which supports our organizational goals effectively Since our enterprise has many APIs, Oracle API…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Based on my experience, I would definitely recommend Kong Gateway Enterprise to other people."

"Kong Enterprise has excellent plugin support."

"Good at intercepting traffic and modeling APIs around that."

"The solution provides good performance."

"In terms of stability, the tool's team has made some good efforts, and my company is very happy with the product's approach."

"Kong enterprise has significantly enhanced our ability to manage and secure our Microservices. Its most valuable feature is monitoring."

"The most valuable feature of Kong Enterprise is its capability to integrate with various security tools."

"The most valuable features of Kong Enterprise are the out-of-the-box open source easy functionality."

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"The Gateways are communicating with a Management Service, which lives in the Cloud, to send usage information or to fetch changes for the deployed APIs."

"The solution is stable."

"Oracle API Platform Cloud Service's UI is quite user-friendly and supports a hybrid deployment model."

"I find the customizable dashboards convenient. When you have a privatized dashboard, it's easy to log in, get an immediate snapshot of what's happening, and quickly address any problems."

"All API usage is now governed and tracked."

"The security mode and the deployment process are significant assets, offering simplified deployment and effective troubleshooting options, including Docker support."

"Oracle's APIP CS is a platform capable for consistently covering the complete API Lifecycle from design to retirement, supporting an API-first approach."

"The most valuable features are the easy integration with the Oracle cloud, and that it's easy to use."

Cons

"Kong Enterprise needs to improve its pricing, which starts at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Pricing should be based on API usage rather than monthly. It should improve its documentation as well."

"We are facing issues with the solution's features like reports and traffic analysis."

"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The main challenge, in my opinion, is the price. It's difficult to convince our management to approve the budget to purchase it from our vendor. There are no technical problems."

"The tool needs to improve in areas like documentation and UI."

"The solution should include policy features that are available in other solutions like MuleSoft API manager but missing in Kong Enterprise."

"Kong Enterprise fails to provide live tracing of the APIs, which is possible nowadays."

"Kong Enterprise has decided not to support the web portal feature anymore, but I think that feature should stay in the on-premises solution."

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"The solution's cost in terms of scaling could be better."

"Even when an API is functioning correctly, there seems to be a glitch within OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)."

"In the next release, I would like to see more security policies and for it to include an on-cloud gateway."

"I would like to see enhanced support for SOAP Service and the corresponding WS-Security policies."

"There should be closer integration between the API Platform Cloud Service and the Identity Cloud Service to allow IDCS Applications, protecting backend systems, to be linked to the API Applications that consumers use to access APIs."

"In future updates, we might be interested to see more enhancements after exploring the existing features over the next year."

"Oracle API Platform Cloud Service provides an API documentation tool, which is quite outdated."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a need to pay towards the licensing charges...In some areas, the functionalities are available free of charge."

"The licensing fees are paid yearly."

"Kong Enterprise is cheaper than Apigee. I rate its pricing as four out of ten."

"The licensing is expensive."

"I don't have any information on licensing costs currently."

"The product is reasonably priced because it goes by the SaaS model."

"There are many factors that influence the price of Kong Enterprise, such as scale, licenses, and usage."

"Kong Enterprise's pricing is reasonable for our company size."

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"The solution is expensive to scale."

"Oracle API Platform Cloud Service is a cheap solution."

"The pricing is for each logical gateway (a logical gateway can have multiple physical nodes)."

"Pricing depends on the specific services used."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Healthcare Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Large Enterprise	19

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

How does Kong Enterprise compare with Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager?

The Mulesoft Anypoint API Manager was designed with its users in mind. Though it is a reasonably complex piece of software, it is easy to install and upgrade. While there are different things that ...

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What do you like most about Kong Enterprise?

The tool's feature that I find most beneficial is rate limiting. In our usage, especially in the financial sector, we prioritize limiting API usage. This is crucial because we provide APIs to other...

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What needs improvement with Kong Enterprise?

More plugins for additional integrations would be helpful and openness for traditional development languages, such as .NET, because many enterprises are looking for .NET solutions or incorporating ...

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What do you like most about Oracle API Platform Cloud Service?

I find the customizable dashboards convenient. When you have a privatized dashboard, it's easy to log in, get an immediate snapshot of what's happening, and quickly address any problems.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle API Platform Cloud Service?

The pricing and licensing are considered competitive, especially since our enterprise uses multiple Oracle products, which makes the integration seamless and cost-effective.

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What needs improvement with Oracle API Platform Cloud Service?

Currently, there is nothing in particular that we feel needs improvement. However, in future updates, we might be interested to see more enhancements after exploring the existing features over the ...

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Overview

Kong delivers a next generation API platform built for modern architectures. With a lightnight-fast, lightweight, and flexible core, Kong delivers sub-millisecond latency across all your services. Kong's is deployment-, vendor-, and pattern-agnostic, allowing you to run your services how you want, where you want, and with who you want - from baremetal to cloud, monolith to microservices, service mesh, and beyond.

Kong

Oracle API Platform Cloud Service enables companies to thrive in the digital economy by comprehensively managing the full API lifecycle from design and standardization to documenting, publishing, testing and managing APIs. These tools provide API developers, managers, and users an end-to-end platform for designing, prototyping. Through the platform, users gain the agility needed to support changing business demands and opportunities, while having clear visibility into who is using APIs for better control, security and monetization of digital assets.

Oracle

Sample Customers

Cargill, Zillow, Ferrari, WeWork, Healthcare.gov, Yahoo! Japan, Giphy, SkyScanner

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